Excerpt: ...Examiner, February 7, 1852. Reprinted, slightly altered, in Life, vol. I, p. 345. Included, almost entirely re-written, in collected Works. First drink a health, this solemn night, A health to England, every guest; That man's the best cosmopolite Who loves his native country best. May Freedom's oak for ever live With stronger life from day to day; That man's the best Conservative Who lops the mouldered branch away. Hands all round God the tyrant's hope confound To this great cause of Freedom drink, my friends, And the great name of England round and round. A health to Europe's honest men Heaven guard them from her tyrants' jails From wronged Poerio's noisome den, From iron limbs and tortured nails We curse the crimes of Southern kings, The Russian whips and Austrian rods